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[Michael]

yep.... I figured that out. $300 new on Amazon or a used one for $65.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> What he was talking about is a special type of scanner or an accessory
> that you have to get with your scanner.
> They are usually sold as transparency scanners if they can light the whole
> scanning area, or they are sold as transparency or negative scanners if
> they only back light a subset of the scanning area.
>
> When you scan something in transparency mode the scanner has to turn off
> it's regular light that lights from under the document and turn on a light,
> that shines through the document/slide/transparenty...etc.etc..
>
> I've tended to spend the extra money to get the transparency feature, and
> it's proved to be handy more than what I had originally thought, especially
> now with all the photos going digital.   I've even used my scanner's slide
> feature to pull details out of some old negatives that came from a mystery
> roll of film that had been sitting around for years.  Once the negatives
> were developed they appeared to be completely blank, so I wasn't even
> charged anything for them.  But when I ran them though my scanner and did
> some gimp magic I could see that there really was something there... turns
> out it wasn't anything I was interesting in keeping, but at least I know
> that for a fact now :)
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 01/31/2016 03:43 PM, Michael wrote:
>
> Xsane has a slide setting though..... hmmmmm..... well, we'll see when I
> get a slide/negative to test it with.
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
> > wrote:
>
>> Your scanner needs to have the ability to shine light through the slide.
>> Usually the top of the scanner (the part that opens) has a screen you
>> remove and there is a light source that shines the light through the slide
>> (sitting on the glass) into the sensors. I don't think a reflective scan
>> will work. A reflective scan is how you normally use a scanner - light is
>> shined onto the image and the scanner receives the reflection off the
>> photo, piece of paper, etc.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Stephen Partington <
>> <cryptworks at gmail.com>cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Technically correct. But make sure you have a slide setting.
>>> On Jan 31, 2016 3:10 PM, "Michael" < <bmike1 at gmail.com>bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> my father has a BUNCH of slides. I just told him I could modify them so
>>>> he could take the pictures to Walgreens/Walmart/CVS and print them. I think
>>>> I just need to scan them and then send the pictures to him. Gee... I don't
>>>> even need to apply a negative filter. Am I thinking correctly?
>>>>
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